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...switch stopped economic growth, and also stunted the life of the ordinary Czech. Prices have soared 20% while purchasing power has fallen. Deliveries are slow, queues long and goods faulty; Radio Prague recently admitted that half the output of 650 kinds of industrial products are "below world levels" of quality, and that rejects cost $200 million a year. Prague, once called "the Golden City," is a mangy metropolis of sooty streets and faulty plumbing. Everywhere signs warn "Pozor pada omitka" (Beware of falling plaster). Railroads cannot haul all the coal needed for power. "What did we use before candles?" runs...
Politics caused an increasing storm as well. A Czech professor speaking to an SRO crowd in Sanders denounced the Munich Pact as offering no real peace. Five days later, an exuberant group of Yardlings heckled an American Legion parade by goosestepping alongside it, shouting "hells...
...Prague in the '20s that Franz Kafka wrote his chilling allegories of men condemned to lingering deaths by a malevolent bureaucracy. "People didn't understand him 25 years ago," mused a Czech writer recently. "Now, after 16 years of Communism, they understand Kafka very well...
Baron von Novotny. The economy may be chronically short of workers, but it supports a Parkinsonian proliferation of officials. There are 29 "technical" specialists for every 100 production workers in industry as a whole; in some heavy-engineering plants, two out of three employees are "experts." Czech clerks dully obey detailed instructions that minutely specify every routine from stowing their rubber stamps to writing form letters with "psychologically effective opening and closing phrases...
Actually, they are the same Czech, appearing in Czechoslovakia's unique Laterna Magika at a Munich theater. Using ten screens of assorted sizes, five projectors, 21 technicians, 17 performers and two conveyor belts, Laterna Magika achieves a series of kinetic marvels that leaves the Germans jawohling in the aisles. Actors on the boards engage in dance and dialogue with actors on the screens, mingling reality and illusion, adding to the stage the weightless ease of movies and to the movies the presence of theater...